Visual Studio keeps crashing

Question

Visual studio team system 2008 keeps crashing on me. Sometimes it just freezes, or certain parts of the UI get messed up or a weird popup box saying something about unable to load parameters or saying something else about memory or any other number of things.

it usually happens when I do a "complex" task like go into debug mode or do a search across of whole solution or run a unit tests or something like that.

I rebooted my machine countless time, reinstalled it VS, changed my virtual memory settings, flush my page file on every reboot and anything else i could think of.

It seems like VS runs out memory or something.

I have a powerfully machine with lots of RAM so that's not the issue

any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can always try some standard Visual Studio troubleshooting steps:

• Clean the solution
• Delete / rename all files in your solution created by VS, i.e. all .ncb, .suo, .user files
• Launch Visual Studio with all add-ins disabled: devenv.exe /SafeMode
• Reset All Settings: Tools -> Import / Export Settings -> Reset All Settings
• Delete HKCU:\Software\Micosoft\VisualStudio\9.0 and then restart Visual Studio
• Repair the Visual Studio installation through Add/Remove Programs

You might also check whether there is a hotfix available addressing your issue (e.g. KB960075 sounds like a good candidate for you), or whether you find your problem already reported on the Connect website.